Top 100 Friendship Wisdom Quotes
#2. It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#3. Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I.
But when thou sayest fool remember well
That fools do walk in foolish company.
So if I am a fool, perhaps 'tis true
That other fools around me may be found.
Ian Doescher
#4. What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#5. All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India.
Abhijit Naskar
#6. Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#9. ...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people's destiny is charted...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#10. The true leaders of our time, the legends of this world or the movers of the movers are the towering figures that are blessed with beautiful minds, receptive ears and directing voices. They are the ones we should emulate in life.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#12. When we tend to be too hard on those we love, we erode the softness of our souls in the process, taking out the humanity within us that is the nucleus of our goodness, even if our actions are for their own sake.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#13. There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.
William Damon
#14. Friendship is not a superficial thing; it is understanding the heart's feelings.
Debasish Mridha
#15. If you're with someone, but you're constantly worried about what they think of you, you're with the wrong person.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#16. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.
Criss Jami
#17. Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#20. Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#21. Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#22. The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. Officially, you owe each other nothing.
Tim Kreider
#23. Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
Dalai Lama
#24. ...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people's way of life...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#25. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
#27. There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#28. Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#30. Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#31. A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love - the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#32. 27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.
Epicurus
#34. Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly
something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
George Eliot
#35. When we all work together for love, for unity,
there will be friendship, happiness, and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#37. ...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#38. When somebody you love dies, a phase of life's innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#41. Don't hate people who show you what's wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true friends.
C. JoyBell C.
#42. I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino
#43. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. Once we were in love,
So I know it's true, the saying:
True love never ends
For as much as I loved you when we were sweethearts, I love you even more
Now that we are friends
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#45. Mine is the disaster, if disaster there be; and to be severely distressed at one's own misfortunes does not show that you love your friend, but that you love yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#46. Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#47. Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant
Saadi
#49. A mansion begins with one brick.
A forest begins with one tree.
A harvest begins with one seed.
An ocean begins with one drop.
A friendship begins with one gesture.
A fire begins with one spark.
A revolution begins with one idea.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. I so loved the nobility of your character, your wisdom, your chastity, your spirit, and indeed every aspect of your life that many people have said to me: What are you doing?
Hildegard Of Bingen
#51. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
Acharya Mahapragya
#52. In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.
Ueda Akinari
#53. Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#54. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#55. ...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#56. We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part ways with those people, ideas and things that are a vexation to the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#57. A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#58. A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
Richard Rohr
#59. I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don't know or haven't made the effort to understand.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#60. Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends.
Abhijit Naskar
#61. World will be so beautiful without war.
Every child will grow up without fear.
Mother will smile; child will play.
Friendship will prosper all the way.
Love harmony and peace everywhere.
It is our hope for our great future.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Happiness held is the beginning; happiness shared is the blossom
Abhysheq Shukla
#64. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. Who had said that? someone else who loved books.
Cornelia Funke
#65. The only way to move from your reality to God's reality is through people who love you.
Shannon L. Alder
#66. Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#67. It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#68. In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.
Jack Valenti
#69. It is in the character of very few people to honour a prosperous friend without envy, and these very few people tend to become best friends.
Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
#71. The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
Epicurus
#73. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#74. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...
Muse
#75. Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.
Pope John Paul II
#76. ...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors. After all, they are the ones who carefully observed the link between their dreams and reality; they are the ones who worked consciously to blend them into one.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#78. The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
Fredrik Backman
#79. Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#80. You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#81. Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#83. ...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce the next cycle of dropouts...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#84. In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#86. I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.
Robin Jones Gunn
#88. The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#89. A one sided friendship brings exhaustion and there's no one deserves to be sucked dry.
Euginia Herlihy
#90. Win hatred with love, enemies with friendship, and cruelty with kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#91. The friendship is real, not merely imagined. We're meant to experience this life, your life, together, in a dialogue, sharing the journey. You get to share in our wisdom and learn to love with our love,
William Paul Young
#92. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
Idries Shah
#93. The friend is a human Eden
But Eden is so easily lost
When you choose, choose wisely
Before you share, count the cost
Genieve Dawkins
#94. Your love for me should be a passionate desire to pray for me daily.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#95. Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.
Wes Fesler
#96. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
#97. Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#98. Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#99. Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#100. Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
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